The Supreme Court Wednesday denied an emergency request by Former President Donald Trump to block the release of presidential records from the Donald Trump White House to the congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. In August, the special House committee requested that the National Archives provide the presidential records [...]

A district court judge in Virginia on Friday found Virginia’s online civil court system violated First Amendment rights of the press and public because of the system’s restricted access to newly filed civil complaints. The Officer of the Court Remote Access (OCRA) system makes civil filings available to attorneys through a per-court subscription fee. Authorized [...]

The UK Ministry of the Interior Monday announced a public inquiry to investigate how British police officer Wayne Couzens was able to abduct, rape, and murder a woman, Sarah Everard. The inquiry will also examine whether the crime could have been prevented and if any “red flags” were missed earlier in Couzens’s career. Couzens abducted [...]

The French Parliament on Thursday approved President Emmanuel Macron’s vaccine pass bill, which requires people over 16 years of age to be fully vaccinated to access public venues including restaurants, cinemas, and transportation. Prior to this vaccine pass bill, France had been using the ‘passe sanitaire’ (health pass), which required vaccination, recovery from COVID-19, or [...]

The Irish language gained full official and working status in the European Union on Saturday, culminating a derogation arrangement that has been in place since 2007, the government of Ireland announced. In 2004, Dublin requested the inclusion of Irish as an official EU language. The Irish language was given official and working status on January [...]

US President Joe Biden spoke with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday to discuss Russia’s troop buildup near its Ukraine border and vowed Washington and its allies would “respond decisively” if Russia invades Ukraine, according to a White House statement. Russia currently has amassed some 100,000 troops along its border with Ukraine, according to analysts. [...]

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda vetoed a controversial media bill Monday that was criticized for targeting independent broadcaster TVN owned by Discovery, Inc., a US media giant. The bill requires that broadcasters operating in Poland be majority-owned by entities from the European Economic Area. The ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) has vocalized the belief that [...]

A New York state judge Friday upheld a ruling banning The New York Times from publishing documents related to Project Veritas. Judge Charles Wood of the Westchester County Supreme Court ordered the New York Times to turn in physical copies of documents in question and delete digital versions of the documents. Project Veritas is a [...]

Former President Donald Trump sued New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday, seeking to block a long-running civil fraud investigation into his business practices and to bar a criminal investigation. The complaint was filed in the Northern District of New York after it was reported that James’s office would seek to question Trump as [...]

Robert Scott Palmer of Largo, Florida, was sentenced in federal court to 63 months in prison on Friday for assaulting law enforcement with dangerous weapons during the January 6 breach of the US Capitol. Palmer is the first defendant from the breach of the Capitol to be sentenced for assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with [...]